Death $: Tracking US Military Aid to Egypt

I was watching Al Jazeera, designated the "real news" by Hillary Clinton, when I came across an interesting feature about how US military sales to Egypt were publicly disclosed by law. A little sleuthing brought me to the Department of Defense website. A Bing search (talk about irregularities in government procurement) brings us recent American "foreign military sales" to Egypt:

Other sources have tallied military aid to Egypt over the years alike CNN and NPR. The honest truth is that it is very hard for the United States to wash its hands off Egyptian military and police forces killing and maiming its own people. This life--I mean deathline has been extended for years and years. Why does the US take little action to punish Egypt aside from delaying more arms shipments or calling off joint exercises? Those are empty gestures. Aren't the Syrians doing exactly the same sort of thing, allegedly with other sorts of weapons? Either way they die--it's just that one country is using weapons proudly "Made in the USA" to do the deed.

As for US SecDef Chuck Hagel, part of allowing Egypt to sort out its own troubles is not supplying billions of dollars' worth of weaponry to one side (for a start).